Word: jibber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vague sort of visual fluoride. Its role has also withered as social compacts about the use of public space have been trashed. The aerosol valve has done for eyes in American cities what the suitcase radio has done for ears: civility dies before the corrosive jibber-jabber and the intrusive spray can. Graffiti are the strangling weeds on the ruins of the idea of public art. No wonder most city dwellers today think of public sculpture as just one more semivisible addition to an already cluttered environment, and would rather have a nice tub of petunias...